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you're skeptical, secretary of state hillary clinton also skeptical. she says this is a step in the right direction, an important first step. however, they are watching this situation quite closely. as you know, north korea right now has a new leader kim jong-un, very young, a man in his 20s, very little is known about him. and in the past, north korea has reneged on promises of this sort. so the obama administration certainly saying that this is an encouraging first step, but they are not celebrating just yet because they think there's a long way to go and they want to see action from north korea, larry. >> thank you very much from the white house. here to break it all down, distinguished four-star army general barry mccaffrey. as always, sir, welcome back. down through the years, the inspectors never get to inspect. why should we be aparty to this again? is there any change here? >> well, of course, the history as you say, larry, leads to cynicism. we've been around this circuit a dozen times at least with these people. they did one thing that was en
you're skeptical, secretary of state hillary clinton also skeptical. she says this is a step in the right direction, an important first step. however, they are watching this situation quite closely. as you know, north korea right now has a new leader kim jong-un, very young, a man in his 20s, very little is known about him. and in the past, north korea has reneged on promises of this sort. so the obama administration certainly saying that this is an encouraging first step, but they are not...
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do you run center, play a clinton move or do you run hard left? we are seeing the obama that i predicted is going to run hard left. he wants to tax the wealthy. by the way, how do you compromise by first telling someone that you need to come to my position, then give me something else and maybe i'll compromise with you? barack obama is not interested in compromise. keith, you just contradicted yourselves. >> mitch mcconnell has been the guy out there saying it, and all republicans are not willing to have any new tax increases. >> that's not true. there's a difference between raising revenues and raising taxes. >> no, i said tax increases, though. tell me, am i wrong about that, steve? >> no, you are wrong. >> when did he say differently? >> look, i interviewed him this week. he said it many times. he said it on the senate floor. we're willing to compromise on raising taxes. that's something that a lot of republicans aren't real happy with, but he said look, i'm willing to put revenues on the table. but what he's saying, keith, let's be very clear.
do you run center, play a clinton move or do you run hard left? we are seeing the obama that i predicted is going to run hard left. he wants to tax the wealthy. by the way, how do you compromise by first telling someone that you need to come to my position, then give me something else and maybe i'll compromise with you? barack obama is not interested in compromise. keith, you just contradicted yourselves. >> mitch mcconnell has been the guy out there saying it, and all republicans are not...
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in fact from kennedy to reagan to clinton to w. bush lower tax rates frequently increased tax revenues, particularly at the upper end of the income stream. so here now to discuss this we have cnbc contributor keith boykin a former clinton white house aide and forbes media chairman steve forbes author of freedom manifesto, why free markets are moral and big government is not. love that. hey steve and keith. keith boykin i'll give you a little supply side. you'll hate this. this couples from the irs. the irs is going to use the bush cut, the dreaded bush tax cuts. the richest 1% paid $84 billion inflation adjusted dollars more between 2000 and 2007. that's a rise of 23%. in other words, their tax rates went down. and their tax revenues went up. now, isn't mr. obama making a mistake? >> well, the rich are paying more in taxes because the rich are disproportionately receiving most of the income in this country. the reality, larry, is that in my lifetime we've actually only raised income tax rates three times. once in 1969 to pay for th
in fact from kennedy to reagan to clinton to w. bush lower tax rates frequently increased tax revenues, particularly at the upper end of the income stream. so here now to discuss this we have cnbc contributor keith boykin a former clinton white house aide and forbes media chairman steve forbes author of freedom manifesto, why free markets are moral and big government is not. love that. hey steve and keith. keith boykin i'll give you a little supply side. you'll hate this. this couples from the...
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clinton saying the buck stops with her. >> harry truman had it right. the buck stops with the president. >> so will president obama finally step up tonight for the administration's handling of libya? >> listen to this. ultimately the buck stops with me. as president, i have a responsibility to protect our nation and our people. when the system fails, it is my responsibility. >> let's get to my guest tonight. former presidential candidate himself, howard dean and tennessee republican house member and romney surrogate marcia blackburn. i want to ask you what is going on here. is hillary trying to take the fall for barack obama? i don't understand the dynamic here. >> this is five weeks, we have been five weeks. we don't have the answers. we lost the life of one of our ambassadors. and that is one of the good reasons for our intelligence committee and our government reform. holding hearings and starting to get to the bottom of this and figure out who knew what and when. the intelligence sources, that is the part that baffles me. i have to ask you. you look
clinton saying the buck stops with her. >> harry truman had it right. the buck stops with the president. >> so will president obama finally step up tonight for the administration's handling of libya? >> listen to this. ultimately the buck stops with me. as president, i have a responsibility to protect our nation and our people. when the system fails, it is my responsibility. >> let's get to my guest tonight. former presidential candidate himself, howard dean and...
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former clinton white house aide, keith boykin. rick lazio, former republican congressman from new york. rick lazio, i begin with you, good evening to you. >> hello, larry. >> this is a gigantic audience, the key issue of our time is still the economy and jobs. so far mitt romney has not been able to make the sale. that's what the polls show. that's why this thing is close. why hasn't he and what's he going to do tonight differently than he's done in the past. >> i think he's going to make the contrast with president obama, why expanding the pie is in the national interest. not redistributing an ever slowing economy but expanding the pie so everybody gets a job that wants a job, people's salaries are rising. i think he needs to lay out the picture, paint the picture for the audience, frankly, larry, of what america would look like after four years of pro-growth policies. more kid graduating and getting jobs that they were trained to do, more people going to work with full-time jobs, fewer people bailing out of the economy, not look
former clinton white house aide, keith boykin. rick lazio, former republican congressman from new york. rick lazio, i begin with you, good evening to you. >> hello, larry. >> this is a gigantic audience, the key issue of our time is still the economy and jobs. so far mitt romney has not been able to make the sale. that's what the polls show. that's why this thing is close. why hasn't he and what's he going to do tonight differently than he's done in the past. >> i think he's...
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reagan and clinton reflected on a strong dollar that was moving toward $100 on u.s. dollar index or higher. obviously with reagan you were rung at 140 and 160 on the dollar index. when you're talking about that point in the chart, you're talking about a very low level in the index and a highly correlated price of oil. if you go back to the '80s and '90s. the price of oil was not only in the $80 to $90 range. what we expect now is for policies to inflate above obama and bernanke. that will be the sustainability. >> bob froehlich, would you sell stocks on the basis or worries about a falling dollar? >> i wouldn't larry. i think this is still a great buying opportunity and the fundamentals are absolutely positively too strong and i look at the dollar and the chart that you put up, if we can do that, have that kind of a rally with the dollar, with interest rates at zero and the budget deficit, the highest level since great depression, are you kidding me? those things are so negative for the dollar, we fix either one of those and you watch how strong our dollar gets. one
reagan and clinton reflected on a strong dollar that was moving toward $100 on u.s. dollar index or higher. obviously with reagan you were rung at 140 and 160 on the dollar index. when you're talking about that point in the chart, you're talking about a very low level in the index and a highly correlated price of oil. if you go back to the '80s and '90s. the price of oil was not only in the $80 to $90 range. what we expect now is for policies to inflate above obama and bernanke. that will be...
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we have democratic pollster, 1996 clinton campaign advise yeh mark penn. we have also have former house majority leader dick armey. he's co-chairman of freedomworks. former white house deputy press secretary and cnbc contributor tony fratto joins us. dick armey, let me begin with you, my good friend. why should romney and the republicans give up some grand bargain on entitlements and spending and taxes? why should they absolutely do anything with that until the swearing in of mitt romney and the swearing in of a republican senate? why shouldn't they wait and get their own agenda through, have their own 100 days? why should they do it right away? >> well, first of all, john boehner shouldn't get drawn into another negotiation with people who don't negotiate. president obama never showed up. the senate democrats stonewalled him. we ended up with this silly debt commission that couldn't even get $1.2 trillion in spending cuts while, for example, in our shop we got $9.7 trillion in ten years just by talking to real people in america. now, if he did, if he did
we have democratic pollster, 1996 clinton campaign advise yeh mark penn. we have also have former house majority leader dick armey. he's co-chairman of freedomworks. former white house deputy press secretary and cnbc contributor tony fratto joins us. dick armey, let me begin with you, my good friend. why should romney and the republicans give up some grand bargain on entitlements and spending and taxes? why should they absolutely do anything with that until the swearing in of mitt romney and...
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george bush did it following the reception in 2001 and why it did not destroy the economy when bill clinton raised exactly the taxes by exactly the tax that we're talking about in 1993 and all of the the same people said it's going to destroy the economy and destroy job creation. it's ridiculous. it's not the case. trickle down from a very small number from high income people drives the economy in a sustainable way. we learned again and again is what it leads to is bubbles and unsustainable growth. >> when president bush cut taxes, our economy grew for six years. >> that's not the case. >> hang upon please. >> for heaven's sake, even president obama said in 2010 that raising taxes on anyone when the economy is this week is a bad idea. now he's talking out of the other side of his mouth saying we need to raise taxes on those who create jobs today. the top 2% of the americans are paying the highest proportion of national taxes of any country in the world. if we want to talk about fairness, we need to look at a simple flat tax rate. republicans want to keep the current tax rates the same until
george bush did it following the reception in 2001 and why it did not destroy the economy when bill clinton raised exactly the taxes by exactly the tax that we're talking about in 1993 and all of the the same people said it's going to destroy the economy and destroy job creation. it's ridiculous. it's not the case. trickle down from a very small number from high income people drives the economy in a sustainable way. we learned again and again is what it leads to is bubbles and unsustainable...
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democrats are shaken and breaking out their big gun, i guess, bill clinton. he used to campaign against governor scott walker. this race could be the end of big labor in wisconsin. scott walker's going to win pulling away, the "kudlow report's" coming back with staggering numbers on the shrinkage of labor on wisconsin. >>> i'm jane wells in los angeles with a news update. facebook finally had a good day as investors began to buy at about 2:00 p.m. eastern driving the stock up 10% from its intraday low. still, it's down 22% from its ipo price. >>> space x's "dragon" capsule landed in the ocean right on schedule this morning looking like a large scorched cork. the successful mission giving a big boost to space x and the future of spacecraft. >>> former senator john edwards after the hook after a jury found him not guilty on one count and deadlocked on the rest. the judge then declared a mistrial and ended his campaign fraud case. he was accused of diverting campaign distributions to support his mistress and child. he told reporters he did an awful lot that was
democrats are shaken and breaking out their big gun, i guess, bill clinton. he used to campaign against governor scott walker. this race could be the end of big labor in wisconsin. scott walker's going to win pulling away, the "kudlow report's" coming back with staggering numbers on the shrinkage of labor on wisconsin. >>> i'm jane wells in los angeles with a news update. facebook finally had a good day as investors began to buy at about 2:00 p.m. eastern driving the stock up...
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with obama replace the outspoken biden with hillary clinton? two-thirds of americans view her favorably. let's bring in our guest. keith boykin and senior contributor keith williams. biden was put on the ticket for his foreign policy gravitas. he is the biggest gaffe machine in political history. should president obama go into a tight race with that land mine waiting to go off, keith? >> he's not a land mine. absolutely he needs to stick with joe biden. if you get rid of biden right now, it makes it look like the president is weak. you can't abandon somebody who has been with you all this time. that's about disloyalty. he can connect with white voters and he can articulate the message to middle class and working class voters in a way that barack obama hasn't been as able to do. he's effective but not as effective as joe biden it s. >> i'm not sure if that works anymore. he's trying to create that aura of every man but he's a long-time washingtonin sider. >> he takes the train -- >> it's very expensive to go from wilmington to d.c. >> biden mayb
with obama replace the outspoken biden with hillary clinton? two-thirds of americans view her favorably. let's bring in our guest. keith boykin and senior contributor keith williams. biden was put on the ticket for his foreign policy gravitas. he is the biggest gaffe machine in political history. should president obama go into a tight race with that land mine waiting to go off, keith? >> he's not a land mine. absolutely he needs to stick with joe biden. if you get rid of biden right now,...
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reagan or clinton. they had 15 to 30% higher dollar and oil prices in both periods. >> came down. >> were 18 to 20 a barrel. >> and gold prices came down. i was disturbed by the mcdonald's report today. mcdonald's, the quintessential global company, every place, and they reported lousy earnings, lousy revenues and lousy guidance. you know what? i'd use mcd's as a global indicator. i didn't like a thing hay had to say. >> it's nasty. that's what economic cycles are. keynesian economists say the elixir of life is we can smooth the economic cycle. that hasn't happened. you cannot ban gravity either. corporate earnings cycles go up and down. the best way to get earnings on track at mcdonald's is to drop the oil price. >> drop oil prices and grow the economy with supply side policies. keith, thank you very much. up next, unprecedented fines levelled against penn state over the child abuse scandal. some are questioning tonight whether the school should be paying the price. we'll report on it in a moment. my v
reagan or clinton. they had 15 to 30% higher dollar and oil prices in both periods. >> came down. >> were 18 to 20 a barrel. >> and gold prices came down. i was disturbed by the mcdonald's report today. mcdonald's, the quintessential global company, every place, and they reported lousy earnings, lousy revenues and lousy guidance. you know what? i'd use mcd's as a global indicator. i didn't like a thing hay had to say. >> it's nasty. that's what economic cycles are....
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take a look at what clinton did. clinton shut government spending as a share of gdp. look at the boom under clinton. that's what we're talking about. >> jared, you made good press this week. you said at a conference that all the spending on green energy was worthless or didn't create -- >> no, no, no -- >> didn't create any jobs. that's what we're talking about. >> no, first of all -- >> you were right, jared, you got that completely right. this green energy spending doesn't work. >> i'm proud of you, jared. >> i think what you heard me say, sounded right to you. what i've written before is actually the production of clean energy is very capital intensive, it's not very much labor intensive, but there's a lot more jobs to clean energy than that. now, look, you heard art talking about the 1940s, that's then, what we're looking at is over the next 25 years the share of elderly in this economy is going to grow by about 50%. that's baked in the cake. how you guys can tell me we can meet the retirement and health care needs of a much expanded demographic share like that on
take a look at what clinton did. clinton shut government spending as a share of gdp. look at the boom under clinton. that's what we're talking about. >> jared, you made good press this week. you said at a conference that all the spending on green energy was worthless or didn't create -- >> no, no, no -- >> didn't create any jobs. that's what we're talking about. >> no, first of all -- >> you were right, jared, you got that completely right. this green energy...
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he is former clinton white house aide. we bring in jennifer rubin, first time, author of the "washington post's" "right turn" blog. and our pal david webb is back, syndicate the talk show host, co-founder of teaparty365. david webb-d mitt get the right argument out? i didn't hear the tax cut thing. i was waiting for the 20% tax cut. >> we'll all waiting for the tax cut. >> i kind of missed that. >> he's playing on the jobs especially down in the south with a lot of right to work states. he's going to play toward that. this is good, but non-farm payrolls, those aren't up as much as they should be. so he's going to kind of tailor his message down there. but all of america is waiting on a tax -- it's taxes. what's coming up next year with the expiration of the bush tax rates? what's coming up with potential obama care tax effect and cost factors on businesses on main street? >> i get that. but jennifer, you heard that clip. the clip's not the whole story. we're not in mississippi. so we don't get the whole speech. but did it
he is former clinton white house aide. we bring in jennifer rubin, first time, author of the "washington post's" "right turn" blog. and our pal david webb is back, syndicate the talk show host, co-founder of teaparty365. david webb-d mitt get the right argument out? i didn't hear the tax cut thing. i was waiting for the 20% tax cut. >> we'll all waiting for the tax cut. >> i kind of missed that. >> he's playing on the jobs especially down in the south with...
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this was bill clinton's greatest achievement. >> exactly. >> clinton is so different from obama. >> clinton ran for president in 1996. when he bragged about it in the second term it was look how many people i took off welfare. obama is the opposite. he's trying to put more people on. they are running advertisements in hispanic neighborhoods to get people to sign up for food stamps and disability. you saw the numbers on disability. 40% increase during his presidency. i don't think ho% more people have become injured in the last four years. >> this is a key point. are now depending on the america government for assistance of one kind or another. this is obama taking the democratic party and the usa so far to the left, ed. we are unraveling so much progress that was made in the '80s and '90s and so forth. this blows my mind. that's why he's not interested in growth. he's interested in moving the country to the left so the government runs the country. the whole economy. >> he said as much ever since this welfare reform bill was passed in 1996. he said again and again and again he wants to repea
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>> bill clinton -- the film tells you it wasn't for his union friends. >> bill clinton had no union friends. that's one of the reasons i liked him so much. >> we would have spent less money had we said to general motors, you know what? you're going to take less money from the taxpayers because you're going to get your own house in order by cutting these labor contracts. they're still at a disadvantage. you're right, we still have overcapacity. >> you're going to lose michigan, ohio, pennsylvania and you may lose indiana if you make that argument. and i hope you do. i hope republicans make that argument because that is an argument for failure. there's no way you're going to win on that. there's no way. >> we will see. i think bailouts are very unpopular. jennifer ruben, keith boykin, mark simone, thank you very much. >>> now, folks, volume low. the vix volatility index lower. but if you're in the stock market, your portfolio is a whole lot higher again this week. we are in a pretty darn good bull market. we're going to talk about how long the rally can run. and then jimmy cramer pays us a qu
>> bill clinton -- the film tells you it wasn't for his union friends. >> bill clinton had no union friends. that's one of the reasons i liked him so much. >> we would have spent less money had we said to general motors, you know what? you're going to take less money from the taxpayers because you're going to get your own house in order by cutting these labor contracts. they're still at a disadvantage. you're right, we still have overcapacity. >> you're going to lose...
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when obama says go back to clinton rates he means go higher than the clinton rates. and you also have to remember that obama on the campaign trail was saying just a little bit more and now he's saying 1.6 trillion, a number he never told the american people about. his tax ambitions are considerably higher. a little of what is going on is he is trying to define a left flank for obama to make him look more reasonable than other voices out there. some of it is tactical. >> i know many don't believe in the incentive model. that if you keep more of what you earn you work and invest more. people in the business working sector will hand the money over to the government and assume that the government will spend the more more than the free market economy would? do they just not trust the free market economy? >> the asusumption is that peope left to their own devices won't spend money correctly. they think they are clever enough to make that work. >> we have seen how clever that was. i hope we don't have to repeat it. thank you very much this evening. by the way, hostess in ba
when obama says go back to clinton rates he means go higher than the clinton rates. and you also have to remember that obama on the campaign trail was saying just a little bit more and now he's saying 1.6 trillion, a number he never told the american people about. his tax ambitions are considerably higher. a little of what is going on is he is trying to define a left flank for obama to make him look more reasonable than other voices out there. some of it is tactical. >> i know many don't...
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at any rate, here now is former clinton white house aide keith boykin and cnbc contributor jim pethakocis of the american enterprise institute. and cnbc's michelle caruso-cabre caruso-cabrera. keith, i want to start with you. what i stunner -- >> i'm going to interrupt you because you don't have a mike. so we're going to -- yeah, your mike has fallen off. >> i'll answer the question, though. the problem with the numbers is there's two sets of numbers. one is about the deficit being larger than it is. the other is about the spending. the spending part is what's really interesting because ought bama administration has not been a big spender compared to previous administrations. we've seen a 1.4% annual increase in spending under the obama administration. compared to 10.2% under the bush administration. a huge and vastly huge difference. >> the problem -- >> no, the -- we looked at it and verified the numbers. >> let me know when you're ready for the truth. i'll give to you. >> i'm giving it to you. go to politifact.com. here's the problem. the deficit has gone out of control. that's because
at any rate, here now is former clinton white house aide keith boykin and cnbc contributor jim pethakocis of the american enterprise institute. and cnbc's michelle caruso-cabre caruso-cabrera. keith, i want to start with you. what i stunner -- >> i'm going to interrupt you because you don't have a mike. so we're going to -- yeah, your mike has fallen off. >> i'll answer the question, though. the problem with the numbers is there's two sets of numbers. one is about the deficit being...
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cnbc contributor keith boykin, a former clinton white house aide. we have michael steele, former republican national committee chair. and rick lazio from new york. michael steele, tomorrow's results, i know they may not be as marquis as some of the more recent ones, but they could really cook -- romney could cook santorum and gingrich right out of this thing if he sweeps. >> no, not really. >> yeah, really. >> no, not really. because a., these are -- these are caucuses, so there is a very different dynamic than if they were primaries. b., i think that as you will see, for example, rick -- my buddy, rick, i saw him there, that rick santorum will have an opportunity to maybe shake things up in one or two of these caucuses during this stretch over the month of february. three, i think gingrich has made it very clear. it doesn't really matter what happens tomorrow or the next day. he's planning to take this thing as long as and as far as he can. >> sure. i know what he said. i know what dick army said. i want to get your reaction to dick army. dick army
cnbc contributor keith boykin, a former clinton white house aide. we have michael steele, former republican national committee chair. and rick lazio from new york. michael steele, tomorrow's results, i know they may not be as marquis as some of the more recent ones, but they could really cook -- romney could cook santorum and gingrich right out of this thing if he sweeps. >> no, not really. >> yeah, really. >> no, not really. because a., these are -- these are caucuses, so...
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being on the job, and this comes amid a probe and possible secret service impropriety going back to clinton years. from a bit of national embarrassment to source of pride, everyone in new york from kids to adults like myself at cnbc global headquarters had people on the roof, pausing to watch the shuttle "enterprise" before settling on the aircraft carrier the intrepid. the program stopped flying a year ago, shuttles are now pieces of history. what will replace the shuttle? maybe spacex. spoke with them about the upcoming rocket launch and he discussed the challenges his new venture faces. >> we first have to convince customers that they want to fly on a spacecraft that's been retrieved. but i think over time we'll be able to do that. >> you have to be a used space capsule salesman to make it work. >> yes. >> and that guy is genius. free health insurance for life? library board members got insist row, illinois. spouse and kids are covered as well and inherit that if a member dies. they did that for newly elected members. you saw it first on cnbc, this made a debut on power lunch. the scream
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bill clinton and newt gingrich did it. chris christie in the new jersey democratic legislature did it. so why can't this crowd in washington help save the country and do something the same way? >>> house budget chair and political force to be reckoned with always, wisconsin congressman paul ryan will join me in just a few moments. >>> but first up, president obama was asked to grade himself on the economy and he assigned himself an "i" for incomplete. >> i won't give this a letter grade. think it is still incomplete. we've still got work to do. i believe we've got to invest this things like education, making college affordable, science and technology, rebuilding our roads, rebuilding the country, that all those things can be done in a sensible way while we bring our deficits down in a balanced way. i think that everybody sitting on this couch is probably going to have to pay a little bit more in taxes so we don't have to raise taxes for middle class families. and that's a different view from what mr. romney believes. >> ac
bill clinton and newt gingrich did it. chris christie in the new jersey democratic legislature did it. so why can't this crowd in washington help save the country and do something the same way? >>> house budget chair and political force to be reckoned with always, wisconsin congressman paul ryan will join me in just a few moments. >>> but first up, president obama was asked to grade himself on the economy and he assigned himself an "i" for incomplete. >> i...
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medicare guide and customized rate quote. >>> will well, could hillary clinton be angling for a new job. jonathan dienst joins us with more on that and all of the late-breaking headlines coming into the cnbc newsroom. what do you think? >> good evening. robert zellic will step down from his post in june. they say they'll put up a candidate soon. two names being debated secretary of state hillary clinton and former white house economic adviser larry summers. just in to cnbc, moody's says it might downgrade the credit ratings of 17 global banks because of fragile funding conditions. among the banks mentioned, bank of america, citigroup, goldman sachs, j.p. morgan and morgan stanley. some of the largest european banks are also under review. iran is threatening six european countries that it will cut off all oil supplies to those countries if economic sanctions continue. that sent oil prices soaring to 102 barrels. $100 a barrel and clogs will buy ing pringle potato chips from procter & gamble for $2. billion and they'll bail out of their deal with diamond foods and they came to light. gene
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he's a former clinton white house aide. and robert costa of the "national review" along with matt lewis, daily caller senior contributor. can i just get this? romney proposes a tax cut that is across the board. okay? just factually. when biden says it's a tax cut for the wealthy, it's across the board. every income category gets it. that's one of the things that bothers me about this stuff. >> well, the disproportionate -- the disproportion of the bulk of the tax benefits go to the wealthy, though. that's the point. the reason why people are concerned about this and the reason why the buffett rule is important is it's not about class warfare. it's not about attacking the wealthy. it's about making sure that everybody's paying their fair share. >> it is about class warfare. >> no, it's not. if it were, then warren buffett wouldn't be behind it. is warren buffett a class warrior? is warren buffett a class warrior? zbles a class warrior with president obama right now. >> and bill gates is a class warrior? >> it is not tax refo
he's a former clinton white house aide. and robert costa of the "national review" along with matt lewis, daily caller senior contributor. can i just get this? romney proposes a tax cut that is across the board. okay? just factually. when biden says it's a tax cut for the wealthy, it's across the board. every income category gets it. that's one of the things that bothers me about this stuff. >> well, the disproportionate -- the disproportion of the bulk of the tax benefits go to...
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i want to go back to the democratic convention in the speech by bill clinton. who asked a very important question that may be asked again and again during the debate. let's list enbriefly to what president clinton asked. >> republican economic policies quadruple the national debt before i took office in the 12 years before i took office. double the debt in the eight years after i left. because it defied arithmetic. president obama's plan cut the debt. >> all right. he basically is asking a very tough question. now i don't know whether president obama is going to have a deficit reduction plan or not. i haven't heard one. what's your response? i don't think republicans have responded to clinton's argument that the gop doubled the debt before he came into office and doubled it again afterwards. what's your reaction to that? >> i think if you look back historically it was under republicans we saw efforts to control deficits, a deep concern about the state of fiscal affairs. they went at it repeatedly in the first bush administration. so, i don't think that's a fair
i want to go back to the democratic convention in the speech by bill clinton. who asked a very important question that may be asked again and again during the debate. let's list enbriefly to what president clinton asked. >> republican economic policies quadruple the national debt before i took office in the 12 years before i took office. double the debt in the eight years after i left. because it defied arithmetic. president obama's plan cut the debt. >> all right. he basically is...
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our tax rates were higher and the world did not implode. >> bill clinton cut spending. >> bill clinton did cut spending. >> that's correct. >> bill clinton was worried about deficits. be obama is increasing spending. he wants tax credits and spending subsidies. >> this is not what with tax cuts to higher people -- >> i will ask you about when he talks about energy he is not talking about fraking or shale. he is talking about more green energy spending. that's the difference between him and clinton. >> appreciate that. what i'm saying is if you don't like the same as it ever was, let's have a conversation about the bush years if we are going to talk about what worked and didn't work, bush's policies did not work. if you don't believe me, look at the 4.5 million jobs. >> what do you mean? >> 2008 until january 2009, we lost 4.5 million jobs. >> do you know over the same time span that bush created more jobs. the bush recovery created more jobs than the obama -- >> what was -- >> even though the recession was much milder,crea more jobs than obama did. using the obama metric. listen, i kno
our tax rates were higher and the world did not implode. >> bill clinton cut spending. >> bill clinton did cut spending. >> that's correct. >> bill clinton was worried about deficits. be obama is increasing spending. he wants tax credits and spending subsidies. >> this is not what with tax cuts to higher people -- >> i will ask you about when he talks about energy he is not talking about fraking or shale. he is talking about more green energy spending. that's...
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the clinton income tax hikes underproduced revenue based upon their projections. they got in less money than they thought. when clinton lowered capital gains they got in far more revenue than they thought. cutting taxes is expansionary and raising taxes is contractionary. >> this discussion still comes down to spending. >>> a man in washington who has never wavered on this issue is senator tom coburn and in 20 minutes mr. coburn will join to us vent his frustrations about the fiscal cliff and the one-sided discussion and attention on revenues alone which is driving me crazy. politics aside, the question is what happens to the economy and your money if we go over the cliff or just kick the can down the road? you're going to want to hear what our next guest's predictions are because he's a former undersecretary of the treasury and he's a serious guy. later on, didn't president obama promise to pull out our troops out of afghanistan? now he's changing his mind. we're going look at what that means. i think he's got it right this time, and don't forget, folks, free mar
the clinton income tax hikes underproduced revenue based upon their projections. they got in less money than they thought. when clinton lowered capital gains they got in far more revenue than they thought. cutting taxes is expansionary and raising taxes is contractionary. >> this discussion still comes down to spending. >>> a man in washington who has never wavered on this issue is senator tom coburn and in 20 minutes mr. coburn will join to us vent his frustrations about the...
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and senator clinton in the administration's resistance to secretary clinton and the administration's resistance has said that they're not going to lower any of the standards when all the chamber of congress has asked for is guidance. and about some of these companies, you know, the united states government hasn't had very much luck in raising the local standards. i don't know why we're putting it on businesses and much less criminalizing the failure of business to raise the standards of entire countries. >> see, that's the thing. criminalizing the failure of business. and an awful lot of people on the left just hate walmart alexandra, you know that as well as i do. and i'm just trying to figure out, unfortunately, in the real world, other countries don't live up to our standards. but do we criminalize business, do we penalize our businesses because of that cultural fact? >> no, i really think this is the wrong angle on this, all together. lawlessness is not good for corporations. when a corporation wants to operate in a country and have their contracts enforced and their shoplifters
and senator clinton in the administration's resistance to secretary clinton and the administration's resistance has said that they're not going to lower any of the standards when all the chamber of congress has asked for is guidance. and about some of these companies, you know, the united states government hasn't had very much luck in raising the local standards. i don't know why we're putting it on businesses and much less criminalizing the failure of business to raise the standards of entire...
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it's interesting that you mentioned bill clinton, my former boss because one thing that was in place during the clinton years that the current budget, that rey required any bill that came to the floor or to include means of paying for whatever costs. they pay as you go rules is what got us to the balanced budget and the republicans in the house do not count as a tax and they don't count as revenue and the tax revenue. it was actually designed. >> hang on a second. i want to go back to this point because i think, phil kerpen, you put your finger on it. one of the reasons that the harry reid democrat will go along with the failure to do a budget is they don't want to vote on the paul ryan budget which contrary to what david goodfriend is telling us, ryan's budget has sharp reductions in spending with entitlement reform. >> no tax reform. >> and it was all paid for. it was revenue neutral tax reform. phil kerpen, is that the hidden link that they are scared of paul ryan and won't go on the record to pass the budget? >> larry, it's not so much that they're scared of the paul ryan budget.
it's interesting that you mentioned bill clinton, my former boss because one thing that was in place during the clinton years that the current budget, that rey required any bill that came to the floor or to include means of paying for whatever costs. they pay as you go rules is what got us to the balanced budget and the republicans in the house do not count as a tax and they don't count as revenue and the tax revenue. it was actually designed. >> hang on a second. i want to go back to...
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you know he likes to analogyize his terms to bill clinton. this is not what bill clinton practiced. bill clinton cut the capital gains tax. he did not demonize business. he balanced the budget. he negotiated free trade agreements. now obama wants to say this is our plan the way he did at our fundraiser in oakland at the beginning of the week this is not what bill clinton was about. if he wants to become the second bill clinton i'm all for that but that's not what he's been doing or planning on doing. my shell, again, i'll ask you the same question. i don't understand. okay. obama trashing romney at every turn. it's not working at least in the national polls. it may be working a little bit on likability but doesn't show up in the national polls, romney is doing very well. obama has no growth policies except to raise taxes and trash business. i don't understand the guy is in a lot of trouble. a lot of trouble. i don't understand what he thinks he's doing. >> i trashes romney because if people are focused on the economy they will see it's getting worse. consumer spending 1.5% when we w
you know he likes to analogyize his terms to bill clinton. this is not what bill clinton practiced. bill clinton cut the capital gains tax. he did not demonize business. he balanced the budget. he negotiated free trade agreements. now obama wants to say this is our plan the way he did at our fundraiser in oakland at the beginning of the week this is not what bill clinton was about. if he wants to become the second bill clinton i'm all for that but that's not what he's been doing or planning on...
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assertion from a new book "leading from behind" the headline-making book also reports it was hillary clinton who pushed obama to finally pull the trigger on bin laden after three false starts. the author of this blockbuster book joins us exclusively this evening. market is down today. here's the big story. i tweeted about this today. oil has been rallying. this as sash rallying between iran and israel get stronger by the hour. check out how gold is soaring. is this a safe haven from war? or might it be quantitative easing from the fed. "the wall street journal" out with polling numbers. eamon javers out with details. >> the latest poll numbers are out. starting with the overall headline number here, who would you rather vote for, obama/biden, 48%. romney/ryan, 44%. look at the right direction, wrong track. that one not necessarily good news for the folks a the white house. 32 brs think the country is going in the right direction. 61% think it's on the wrong track. but flip over to the economy, you see something that's going to give folks in the romney campaign a little bit of pause here. ask
assertion from a new book "leading from behind" the headline-making book also reports it was hillary clinton who pushed obama to finally pull the trigger on bin laden after three false starts. the author of this blockbuster book joins us exclusively this evening. market is down today. here's the big story. i tweeted about this today. oil has been rallying. this as sash rallying between iran and israel get stronger by the hour. check out how gold is soaring. is this a safe haven from...
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here we have mark penn from 1996 bill clinton campaign adviser. ron kristy former special assistant to president george w. bush and james gilmore former rnc chairman and former virginia governor. ron kristy, is this a distraction? obama just wants to get away from the jobs report and away from the lousy economic data so now he's going into tax cuts and class warfare? >> this is absolutely a distraction. the american people were disheartened to see the terrible jobs report friday. 80,000 jobs created in the last month won't get it done when we have 156,000 people entering the work force every month. the president came out with the plan. he's playing to the base but he knows this is not going to pass the house of representatives where revenue must originate. he knows it won't pass the senate where you have a number of senators saying we should have a tax holiday for those making up to a million dollars it's class warfare and politics. >> i'm not sure. mark penn, i want to ask you about this business about a distraction. changing the message which is
here we have mark penn from 1996 bill clinton campaign adviser. ron kristy former special assistant to president george w. bush and james gilmore former rnc chairman and former virginia governor. ron kristy, is this a distraction? obama just wants to get away from the jobs report and away from the lousy economic data so now he's going into tax cuts and class warfare? >> this is absolutely a distraction. the american people were disheartened to see the terrible jobs report friday. 80,000...
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give a great speech about bill clinton. you know that will happen. >> remember, nobody wants obama defeated more than bill clinton. he'll give a phenomenal speech and a week later in an interview do something to screw it up. >> jonathan cowan, i will concede one thing i don't like. some of the republicans are going to charlotte to cause trouble. there are 50 of them. some of the names here -- nikki haley, governor mary fallan of oklahoma. that's as low rent to me as joe biden going to tampa. i think you have a little defense here. the republicans going to charlotte. i don't like it. the main reason is republicans don't need to go. the democrats are going to hang themselves anyway. >> larry, you're spot on. they shouldn't be going there. they should let democrats have their moment in the sun. not be afraid of what they will say. let them have it. you're completely on about that. >> jimmy, i want the democrats to say what they're going to say because they will say basically what you were saying. that's why they can't win this
give a great speech about bill clinton. you know that will happen. >> remember, nobody wants obama defeated more than bill clinton. he'll give a phenomenal speech and a week later in an interview do something to screw it up. >> jonathan cowan, i will concede one thing i don't like. some of the republicans are going to charlotte to cause trouble. there are 50 of them. some of the names here -- nikki haley, governor mary fallan of oklahoma. that's as low rent to me as joe biden going...
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president clinton: they want to go back to the same old... policies that got us in trouble in the first place. president obama: we're not going back, we are moving forward. anncr: forward. >>> president obama has made his position crystal clear, let the bush tax cuts for wealthy americans expire. but it seems some democratic senators may not be on the same page. in fact senate majority whip dick durbin has presented a -- to avoid the fiscal cliff attend of the year. let's talk with two distinguished senators, michael bennett, democrat from colorado, kelly ayot, democrat from -- i'm interested in this report that senator dick durbin, correct me if i'm wrong senator bennett, but dick durbin sometimes compromises he voted for bowles simpson, is he circulating something that would extend all the tax cuts for six months and would avoid the recession? >> i think dick durbin reserves credit for having voted for the bowles simpson plan. i saw a press report about it yesterday, i think that the most important thing for us to do right now is send a message to the markets in my view that we're not
president clinton: they want to go back to the same old... policies that got us in trouble in the first place. president obama: we're not going back, we are moving forward. anncr: forward. >>> president obama has made his position crystal clear, let the bush tax cuts for wealthy americans expire. but it seems some democratic senators may not be on the same page. in fact senate majority whip dick durbin has presented a -- to avoid the fiscal cliff attend of the year. let's talk with two...
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now, peter, this is something, a quote from secretary of state hillary clinton today. she is in egypt. she says with president marcy. egypt assumed responsibility and leadership for the peace. peter brooks, i guess i might like it believe that. but with marcy and the muslim brotherhood behind them, they favor hamas. they hate israel. how can he possibly preside over real truce? >> that's a very good question, larry. i mean, president morecy is being tested. we will see if he rises to the occasion. don't forget he has the camp david acords with israel and he gets a lot of aid. egypt gets a lot of aid, economic and military aid for the united states with a peace treaty with israel. if they move away with that, that's in jeopardy. this new president is untested. it is a new government. if he is not able to provide for the country of egypt, things may change. he has been put on the spot, and he will have to perform. >> one more spot, peter. his foreign ministry and his morn minister and prime minister have said good things about hamas and bad things about israel. pardon my
now, peter, this is something, a quote from secretary of state hillary clinton today. she is in egypt. she says with president marcy. egypt assumed responsibility and leadership for the peace. peter brooks, i guess i might like it believe that. but with marcy and the muslim brotherhood behind them, they favor hamas. they hate israel. how can he possibly preside over real truce? >> that's a very good question, larry. i mean, president morecy is being tested. we will see if he rises to the...
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what do you make of the latest now today, hillary clinton is saying that she wanted to add security in benghazi and that the president said no. now that looks like she's jumping ship but what do you think? how does it sound to you? >> i'm not a politician, that's getting into a political world that i really can't comment on. but i do think that some congressional committee should ask people to come before them so that this doesn't happen again. they choked. they just choked and americans died and that's wrong. >> under oath, they ought to testify under oath. you know what? no two stories or no two statements coming out of the administration are the same. that's the most amazing thing. it's sort of like they are making it up as they went along because they don't want to hide what the truth is even though none of us know what the heck the truth really is. >> well the one thing that they have to be very careful about is that there are tapes. there are tapes of everything that happened over those seven hours. and sooner or later it's going to come out. >> wow. okay. ben west his newest boo
what do you make of the latest now today, hillary clinton is saying that she wanted to add security in benghazi and that the president said no. now that looks like she's jumping ship but what do you think? how does it sound to you? >> i'm not a politician, that's getting into a political world that i really can't comment on. but i do think that some congressional committee should ask people to come before them so that this doesn't happen again. they choked. they just choked and americans...
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he brings bill clinton in. clinton stands in the press room, and makes the sale by simply saying, you know, what, if we don't extend these tax cuts, we're going to have a double-dip recession. now, i think that's what clinton's talking about. and i want to ask you what this means that clinton called obama an amateur. >> well, i think he's felt that way a long time, if you read jonathan altar's book on the first part of the obama administration, you see there's a lot of resentment there about the idea this guy just came in, i think the words he uses is, he dropped his bags off at the senate and started running for president, who isn't nearly ready for the job. it actually makes sense that clinton would feel that way about president obama and, you know, to hear a story like that kind of reinforces -- >> this is brutal stuff. this is brutal stuff, from an outspoken president, who obviously he wants his wife to run. i mean, that's in the book. and in the book she says no. but what does it mean? clinton says obama d
he brings bill clinton in. clinton stands in the press room, and makes the sale by simply saying, you know, what, if we don't extend these tax cuts, we're going to have a double-dip recession. now, i think that's what clinton's talking about. and i want to ask you what this means that clinton called obama an amateur. >> well, i think he's felt that way a long time, if you read jonathan altar's book on the first part of the obama administration, you see there's a lot of resentment there...
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bill clinton raised tax rates and we had eight years of good growth. i'm not going to say that was the reason. but the story doesn't fit. >> but here's where i'll give you a deal, dean. i'll go back to bill clinton's tax rates if in exchange you agree that we go back to the federal government only spending 18.2% of gdp if we get rid of t.a.r.p., if we get rid of sarbanes-oxley. >> we have to get rid of t.a.r.p. but unless you can make people grow younger, i don't see how you can do 18.2. i could probably pick some games for you. we could put some things off budget and then we'd be at 18.2%. but you know, much of what we spend is on people getting older. and i'm sorry, we're getting older. >> dean baker, i'm kind of crushed to hear this because i thought you wanted to abolish the deductions and the special carve-outs. i thought you were a tax reformer. and i want to add to that, what about the corporate tax? i'm going for a 25% corporate tax. that would put us even with canada if they have federal and provincial. i had dinner last night with the ambassa
bill clinton raised tax rates and we had eight years of good growth. i'm not going to say that was the reason. but the story doesn't fit. >> but here's where i'll give you a deal, dean. i'll go back to bill clinton's tax rates if in exchange you agree that we go back to the federal government only spending 18.2% of gdp if we get rid of t.a.r.p., if we get rid of sarbanes-oxley. >> we have to get rid of t.a.r.p. but unless you can make people grow younger, i don't see how you can do...
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second, has president obama outsourced his foreign policy to hillary clinton? and what about the incredible cover up of the libyan terrorist attack. this could be benghazi gate on the eve of the election. also this evening, mitt romney should draw a red line for middle income taxpayers and say you will not lose your deductions and you will get yours lower tax rates. he has to have a chris cal clear growth message in next week's debate. it could be his last chance. plus the nfl made a deal overnight and the real refs will be on the field this evening. this is a huge story where there were billions of dollars at stake. we have an exclusive new england patriots owner robert kraft joins me this evening. he is the first owner to speak out. all right. following monday's outburst by mahmoud ahmadinejad, it was israeli benjamin netanyahu's turn today. danielle lee joins us with the details. >> good evening. today prime minister netanyahu used a cartoon-like graphic to drive home his fear that iran could have a nuclear bomb completed by this coming summer. he said the t
second, has president obama outsourced his foreign policy to hillary clinton? and what about the incredible cover up of the libyan terrorist attack. this could be benghazi gate on the eve of the election. also this evening, mitt romney should draw a red line for middle income taxpayers and say you will not lose your deductions and you will get yours lower tax rates. he has to have a chris cal clear growth message in next week's debate. it could be his last chance. plus the nfl made a deal...
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i want to go to you on this point because you worked for bill clinton. romney is saying he'll take federal spending from 24% of the economy to 20% of the economy. in the first term that could be 137b9 5 trillion. barack obama has no such thing on the table. >> i don't think he will, larry. going back to your point, the last 80 days will be purely about jobs and the economy. >> do you think? >> it will not be about tax return. it will not be about budget deficit reduction. >> do you think barack obama, for one minute, wants to talk about jobs in the economy? seriously. asking a serious question. >> he has to talk about jobs in the economy in the 5 to 7 states he and the campaign will focus on that's being discussed at dinner tables right now in those states. that's all they will talk about. >> isn't the problem all they do is trash romney? let's take this tax thing. romney says that for ten years i paid a 13% plus tax rate. harry reid is a liar. it's a smear tactic. >> it was a priority. >> joe biden said it yesterday or the kay before you will have new s
i want to go to you on this point because you worked for bill clinton. romney is saying he'll take federal spending from 24% of the economy to 20% of the economy. in the first term that could be 137b9 5 trillion. barack obama has no such thing on the table. >> i don't think he will, larry. going back to your point, the last 80 days will be purely about jobs and the economy. >> do you think? >> it will not be about tax return. it will not be about budget deficit reduction....
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remember clinton triangulated bush, stole his -- >> but the guy's been running for president for five years. i think the american public should know how he plans to -- >> he's like nixon. he's the new new romney. >> it didn't work for gore or kerry. >> this is the tricky part. he says to the american public i am going to make things a lot better. the american public i think is saying how. has he told them how? >> no. there was the 57, 59, i'm starting to lose track, point program. no, i think he needs to come out with that tax plan which he keeps hinting at, showing a little ankle here and there, a little -- >> to help the poor as well as the middle class. >> that's right. >> i thought he didn't care about the poor. >> we need mitt romney to have a little jack chemical np him. >> yes. >> a little jack kemp. entrepreneurial -- >> why -- don't pick up the individual boats. >> it's not about the individual classes. it's about all the classes -- >> a job. >> 243,000 americans have that had month that they didn't before. romney's got a major problem. he's got to change his playbook because
remember clinton triangulated bush, stole his -- >> but the guy's been running for president for five years. i think the american public should know how he plans to -- >> he's like nixon. he's the new new romney. >> it didn't work for gore or kerry. >> this is the tricky part. he says to the american public i am going to make things a lot better. the american public i think is saying how. has he told them how? >> no. there was the 57, 59, i'm starting to lose...
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obama won't listen to clinton. clinton has the story right. >> let's go back to -- >> two things, excuse me, now that -- >> let's do it now. >> listen, if he wants to put the 800 of the original deal on the table, i think mr. boehner might take that. >> let's get a deal. >> well, the president wanted to go back to the original deal? is the president willing to go back to the original deal? he wasn't. he pulled the rug out from speaker boehner. that's been reported in reputable newspapers, very liberal newspapers. >> and the opposite is being reported as well. >> no, it is not, it's just factually wrong. >> that's the buffett rule. >> we're not going to sell this tonight. it's not personal, but i believe that president obama really needs some new advisers who are not ultra-left and ought to go to the clinton camp to get them, but that's another subject for another debate. mr. kasim reed, mayor reed, thank you very much, jennifer rubin and jimmy pethokoukis. back when president obama was able to bring both sides to t
obama won't listen to clinton. clinton has the story right. >> let's go back to -- >> two things, excuse me, now that -- >> let's do it now. >> listen, if he wants to put the 800 of the original deal on the table, i think mr. boehner might take that. >> let's get a deal. >> well, the president wanted to go back to the original deal? is the president willing to go back to the original deal? he wasn't. he pulled the rug out from speaker boehner. that's been...
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appears to me romney's failure to make the sale on the economy has given the edge to obama and his pal, clinton. the poll has them leading by 5 in the national tracking surveys. that ain't much. according to real clear politics, although the margins are tight, out of nine tossup state, president obama is leading in eight. has some on the team romney worried and me worried, so much so and e-mail went out to supporters saying don't let daily polls discourage you. it's an even-up race. sounds like the daily stock market. here's jimy williams, steve moore of the "wall street journal" editorial board and author of "return to prosperity goprosperity" and author of new book "divider in chief", the fraud of hope and change. before we get to the fraud of hope and change, i think hope and change wonthy convention pounce. i didn't think mr. romney got the economic message done. cut taxes, taxing, deregulating but does he connect that with original nary voters and say convincingly, here's how we will get out of this economic mess. >> he has been specific. the guy has something like 60 points on his website
appears to me romney's failure to make the sale on the economy has given the edge to obama and his pal, clinton. the poll has them leading by 5 in the national tracking surveys. that ain't much. according to real clear politics, although the margins are tight, out of nine tossup state, president obama is leading in eight. has some on the team romney worried and me worried, so much so and e-mail went out to supporters saying don't let daily polls discourage you. it's an even-up race. sounds like...
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if we look at the period of prosperity reagan through clinton. they were all characterized by low-government spending, leaving money in the private sector where it's better invested. today, take the top 1% argument. if you take money from me, i'm a top 1 percenter, then it'll come out of my investments. by the way, i invested at the founding at the venture in google, facebook, and cisco. so it'll take money out of my investment portfolio, which is here in silicon valley invested properly and send it to washington for some boondoggle b.s. project that's "shovel ready." >> okay. so let me jump in here. first of all, hello, t.j., and hi, larry. and t.j. sounds like you made some darn smart investments. first of all, there has been no tax increase under president obama. so i'm not sure what t.j.'s talking about. hasn't happened. second of all, i hate to bring facts into the discussion, but i simply have to. when this president inherited this economy, gdp was contracting at a nightmare-ish rate of 9%. i've never seen anything like it. jobs hemorrhagin
if we look at the period of prosperity reagan through clinton. they were all characterized by low-government spending, leaving money in the private sector where it's better invested. today, take the top 1% argument. if you take money from me, i'm a top 1 percenter, then it'll come out of my investments. by the way, i invested at the founding at the venture in google, facebook, and cisco. so it'll take money out of my investment portfolio, which is here in silicon valley invested properly and...
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thank you very much, former clinton and gore adviser. i appreciate it. i want to give you time to catch up. the rap made by team romney against your man, obama, is they are bungling syria, not tough on iran and don't have an america-first, america greatness vision for foreign policy. your response, please. >> well, three words. osama bin laden. i think the president has documented, demonstrated that he is very strong when it comes to keeping america safe and national security. the issue is what's mitt romney's vision? he's doing this where is waldo tour overseas. did you want seem there will be a single syria substantive piece of information, vision. any bigger idea of where he stands in foreign policy that will come out of that. >> chris, to give you time to catch up, the criticism made again by team romney, i heard it from the governor the other night on the show. america is turning its back on great allies like israel, maybe britain and the czech republic and poland. meanwhile spending too much time playing footsie with iran and other bad actors. that
thank you very much, former clinton and gore adviser. i appreciate it. i want to give you time to catch up. the rap made by team romney against your man, obama, is they are bungling syria, not tough on iran and don't have an america-first, america greatness vision for foreign policy. your response, please. >> well, three words. osama bin laden. i think the president has documented, demonstrated that he is very strong when it comes to keeping america safe and national security. the issue...
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here's cnbc contributor keith boykin, former clinton would you do aide and having fun tonight watching the republicans, and we welcome back heather higgins, president and ceo of the independent women's voice. heather higgins is this a good or bad bill, plan b? >> it is the best that boehner can do in an awful situation that he's in, and he's in an awful situation for a variety of reasons. not least of which is poor messaging on the growth message. the average citizen just thinks this is about keeping tax rates low for rich people, and that republicans don't care about the middle class. they don't understand that tax increases are really bad for growth, and what this whole debate ought to be about in terms of entitlement reform and keeping taxes low is growing the economy, because that's how you actually get out of this pickle. >> i want keith to chime in on this message. let me ask you this. has john boehner and the rest of them, cantor, eric cantor, haven't heard much of him throughout this whole thing. paw ryan, paul ryan budget mfte out yesterday saying he's in favor of plan b. all
here's cnbc contributor keith boykin, former clinton would you do aide and having fun tonight watching the republicans, and we welcome back heather higgins, president and ceo of the independent women's voice. heather higgins is this a good or bad bill, plan b? >> it is the best that boehner can do in an awful situation that he's in, and he's in an awful situation for a variety of reasons. not least of which is poor messaging on the growth message. the average citizen just thinks this is...
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clinton did not have to say it. i agree with keith. clinton's a real smart guy. he did not have to go out and praise mitt romney to the high heavens which, by the way, he did again today in his interview with maria bartiromo, praised romney. >> these two guys, clinton and obama, come from two different parts of the democratic party. clinton from the center left. obama from the far left. so idealogically, they are poles apart. clinton is much more pro-business than obama. we don't even discuss that. the point is that the days when he was called a racist by the obama people in south carolina, he never -- >> that's not true. the obama people never called him a racist. you had a few people who were concerned about what bill clinton said because he made the comments comparing obama's victory in south carolina to jesse jackson. but nobody ever called bill clinton a racist from the obama campaign. you should not say that. but there's a big distortion about this. hillary clinton is barack obama's secretary of state. they worked together closely. yes, they were rivals in
clinton did not have to say it. i agree with keith. clinton's a real smart guy. he did not have to go out and praise mitt romney to the high heavens which, by the way, he did again today in his interview with maria bartiromo, praised romney. >> these two guys, clinton and obama, come from two different parts of the democratic party. clinton from the center left. obama from the far left. so idealogically, they are poles apart. clinton is much more pro-business than obama. we don't even...
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we read your progress in the 23 million jobs created under bill clinton when the average american family felt income go up by 7,500 instead of down 2,000 like george w. bush. that that's the standard he set. he's a failure, the family income has gone down $4,000 in 3 1/2 years under obama compared to $2,000 under george w. in eight years. >> because of that family income, that's not a made up number, that's a government number. i think both of these guys should be looking for permanent middle class tax cuts. permanent middle class tax cuts so that take-home pay will go up. i'll give you the last word. >> i found myself strangely agreeing with your plan to cut the middle class and take away the deductions and keep tax rates for people who make a lot of money like you and i fairly high. i think that makes abundant good sense. but we're forgetting one thing. the biggest challenge may be even more than anything is our debt and our deficit. and i think with governor romney and paul ryan figured out was they can't give $5 trillion worth of tax cuts and still eat into the deficit, which i think
we read your progress in the 23 million jobs created under bill clinton when the average american family felt income go up by 7,500 instead of down 2,000 like george w. bush. that that's the standard he set. he's a failure, the family income has gone down $4,000 in 3 1/2 years under obama compared to $2,000 under george w. in eight years. >> because of that family income, that's not a made up number, that's a government number. i think both of these guys should be looking for permanent...
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right after that, what did president clinton say? he said it takes a while for people to feel a recovery. that in fact employment is a lacking indicator relative to say, say, the s&p 500 and maybe what's going on now is what president clinton alluded to that people are starting to feel and perceive a change. >> i think you missed the lay-up. the point here, let me go to my pal jennifer ruben. jennifer, i know you're not an economist, but you've got common horse sense. what i'm saying is a little different here, the stock market may be a leading indicator in the economy, maybe it is, maybe it isn't. the stock market kind of tells you the health, wealth and goodness of the country, or not. a rising market help incumbents, a rising market may be the best predictor of the incumbents, not just because there's an improvement in the economy, but because people get richer, they're up $3 trillion that's a lot of wealth and that makes them feel better about obama despite the that is correct that there are other bad economic indicators. how --
right after that, what did president clinton say? he said it takes a while for people to feel a recovery. that in fact employment is a lacking indicator relative to say, say, the s&p 500 and maybe what's going on now is what president clinton alluded to that people are starting to feel and perceive a change. >> i think you missed the lay-up. the point here, let me go to my pal jennifer ruben. jennifer, i know you're not an economist, but you've got common horse sense. what i'm saying...
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the benghazi cover-up has caused a rift between barack obama and the clintons. here we go. ed klein has broken the story. the author of the best selling book "the amateur" will join us next. up next, we need spies for this one, too. defense secretary leon panetta says america will be attacked. a cyber pearl harbor right out of the movie, derailing passenger trains and contaminating the water supply and shutting down the character. they want legislation and i'll tell you, when liberals want legislation, business beware, but we will cover the cyber threat on kudlow. a ash management system and the world's only tridion safety cell which can withstand over three and a half tons. small in size. big on safety. which can withstand over three and a half tons. when you take a closer look... ...at the best schools in the world... ...you see they all have something very interesting in common. they have teachers... ...with a deeper knowledge of their subjects. as a result, their students achieve at a higher level. let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... .
the benghazi cover-up has caused a rift between barack obama and the clintons. here we go. ed klein has broken the story. the author of the best selling book "the amateur" will join us next. up next, we need spies for this one, too. defense secretary leon panetta says america will be attacked. a cyber pearl harbor right out of the movie, derailing passenger trains and contaminating the water supply and shutting down the character. they want legislation and i'll tell you, when liberals...
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years. >> we ought to follow clinton's example with gingrich. they got it right. up next tonight, syria is in deep turmoil. government forces unleash helicopter gunships, artillery against their own capital. will the u.s. step in to avert a civil war? syndicated radio talk show host, my great friend john batchelor will tell us. mine was earned off vietnam in 1968. over the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. who are these guys? oh, that's just my buds. bacon, donuts. -my taste buds. -[ taste buds ] waffles. how about we try this new kind of fiber one cereal? you think you're going to slip some fiber by us? rookie. okay. ♪ nutty clusters and almonds, ♪ ♪ almonds. ♪ fiber one is gonna make you smile. ♪ [ male announcer ] in
years. >> we ought to follow clinton's example with gingrich. they got it right. up next tonight, syria is in deep turmoil. government forces unleash helicopter gunships, artillery against their own capital. will the u.s. step in to avert a civil war? syndicated radio talk show host, my great friend john batchelor will tell us. mine was earned off vietnam in 1968. over the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to...
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. >> like what we had in the clinton years. >> one at a time. dean, let art make his point, and then you can rebut it. >> we've got huge tax increases coming on january 1st. not only are they the offsetting of the bush tax cuts, but you're going to have all the taxes on obamacare as well. it's just huge. i don't see how you can avoid that unless -- god, i wouldn't make the arguments you make unless i really wanted to please someone there. and it just makes no sense whatsoever, dean. >> i don't work for obama. they wouldn't have me, i assure you. the you can is in a recession. they've been going the market route. spain 24%. they've been going the free market route. greece. >> i just want to ask this. we're going to bring in pollster scott rasmussen in just a minute. here is my basic point. if it were going to work, it would have already worked. and the fact that the growth rate -- >> it's not big enough, larry. i said that then. i say it now. >> if it's going to work, it would have worked. and it hasn't worked. and therefore, dean, it is highly,
. >> like what we had in the clinton years. >> one at a time. dean, let art make his point, and then you can rebut it. >> we've got huge tax increases coming on january 1st. not only are they the offsetting of the bush tax cuts, but you're going to have all the taxes on obamacare as well. it's just huge. i don't see how you can avoid that unless -- god, i wouldn't make the arguments you make unless i really wanted to please someone there. and it just makes no sense whatsoever,...